Plasticity is essential in body perception so that physical changes in the body can be accommodated and assimilated. Multisensory integration of visual, auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive signals contributes both to conscious perception of the body's current state and to associated learning. However, much is unknown about how novel information is assimilated into body perception networks in ...

Background: Overweight perception has been shown to be important for health related adolescent behavior, particularly in girls. Body perception may be affected by bodily changes, especially changes visible for others. Female pubertal development is characterized by many physical changes, such as accelerated growth and altered body fat distribution. This study examined the role of appearance of ...

This chapter focuses on the why, what, and how of bodily expression analysis for automatic affect recognition. It first asks the question of ‘why bodily expression?’ and attempts to find answers by reviewing the latest bodily expression perception literature. The chapter then turns its attention to the question of ‘what are the bodily expressions recognized automatically?’ by providing an overv...

Faces provide information about multiple characteristics like personal identity and emotion. Classical models of face perception postulate separate sub-systems for identity and expression recognition but recent studies have documented emotional contextual influences on recognition of faces. The present study reports three experiments where participants were presented realistic face-body compoun...

1. When Professor Bishop states that "in the case of iconic bodily representation, the channel employed by the sender of a message is the sender's own body" but that "in the relevant cases ofhuman language, ... speech is the channel of communication," he confuses similarity in iconic bodily representation between primordial language and the Tanzsprache with speech perception. I never said that ...

Musicians' expressive bodily movements can influence observers' perception of performance. Furthermore, individual differences in observers' music and motor expertise can shape how they perceive and respond to music performance. However, few studies have investigated the bodily movements that different observers of music performance perceive as expressive, in order to understand how they might ...

In this paper I address visual perception and challenge the view that action and perception constitute two separate domains on the basis of a series of neuroscientific empirical findings on the functional properties of sensorimotor systems of non-human primates and humans. These findings – the facts – show that the motor system not only controls the execution of movements and actions, but it al...

It is widely accepted that autistic children experience difficulties in processing and recognizing emotions. Most relevant studies have explored the perception of faces. However, context and bodily gestures are also sources from which we derive emotional meanings. We tested 23 autistic children and 23 typically developing control children on their ability to recognize point-light displays of a ...